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Well, one quick answer is that you could get something like this: http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?c...FVisitorWrapper They have an 8- and 16-port model (although they're only 10/100) if 4 ports isn't enough. We've used those to connect remote offices to each other using a permanent tunnel between two (or more) of the devices.

Are you using an onboard NIC? If so, what's the make/model of the NIC as well as the make/model of your motherboard (or system if it's a Dell/HP/Gateway/etc).

If they're Intel NICs the PROSet software supports it natively (but only for Intel NICs akaik).

Don't use an imaging utility that doesn't support those NTFS features. Seriously though...I would be suspect of utilities that don't support them since they are an every day-common occurrence under WinXP. Hotfixes even create compressed folders under %SystemRoot% (if you don't use the nobackup switch).

It is only for sp1. my R2 is 64bits server "SP1" in this case means that GPMC has been updated to SP1, not the OS service pack. Think of it like having Office XP SP3 installed on a computer running XP SP2. GPMC SP1 works on 2003 R2...but only the 32-bit version. As cluberti already said...install it on a 32-bit workstation and manage your GPOs from there.

That would be the MSDN version that came out a few years ago...and if you had an MSDN subscription you would have the ISO instead of asking how to burn it. Sounds like someone is asking how to burn some warezed software...

"It's more stable" "XP is just Windows 2000 with eye candy" "2000 doesn't have all the bloatware" "I cAn p1rate W2K ezer"

If you have another server that's generally the better option. Personally, I don't like installing IIS...check that...any web server on a DC unless I have no other option (i.e. only one server available...as is the case with most SBS domains).

You need to find a USB floppy drive then. Or use some of the instructions on the MSFN Unattended site to integrate them into your CD. http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/36/ I use that method on my XP disk at work. I have drivers integrated for Intel, NVIDIA, SiS, Promise, 3ware, etc, etc, etc all on the same disk. The same method will work for Server 2003.

It's not that hard to find...go to microsoft.com/downloads and search for 'gpmc'. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;DisplayLang=en

You could use a KIX32 script and do a user name check: If @USERID = "username" Shell '%COMSPEC% /C net start "service 1"' Shell '%COMSPEC% /C net start "service 2"' EndIf You could even get fancy with some WMI code in there that would check to see if the services were already started first.

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Woah...Virtual PC is sloooooooooooooow over Remote Desktop. It was almost unbearable until I managed to get the VM Additions installed. The lesson here? Next time just use Virtual Server... Anyway...using the LDAP namespace didn't work. I changed the filter to the "standard" CIMV2 name space and have it doing a check on the Caption value in Win32_OperatingSystem. That appears to have worked. GPRESULT says the GPO is denied by a WMI filter. Doing an OS check is how I originally had the filter but it wasn't working using the Group Policy Modeling Wizard (understandable since it doesn't know what OS the target computer is running if the computer isn't online). That's why I changed it to the LDAP namespace but that also didn't work using the GPMW. That, in turn, is why I wanted to test it against a real OS install. Thanks!!!

Not only are they planning new chipsets, but they're planning new CPUs. They'll be doing another die shrink in the second half of the year down to 45nm. Along with this they're adding some other features to the CPUs (SSE4, etc). The code name for these new CPUs is Penryn. I have read that the initial quad-core version of these CPUs will be like the Conroe...meaning that it'll be two dies on one package. That's supposed to get updated to "true" quad core sometime after the release, though. http://www.dailytech.com/Life+With+Penryn/article5869.htm

Thanks. I'll give the articles a look tonight when I get back. Unfortunately it's a new DC in a new domain. We're doing the initial setup offsite I don't have any workstations to do some real testing with. The bad thing is that I'm off-offsite (another location) right now connected remotely to configure the GPOs. I guess this is as good a use as any for Virtual PC.

Any reason you're not running Service Pack 4?

I know it's a bit more than you're looking at (and I hate doing that), but I have the Asus P5B-E and love it. The only reason I went with the -E version was because I wanted the ICH8R (for the RAID) instead of the ICH8. If you don't care about having RAID functionality, then look at the Asus P5B (which the site you linked currently has for $139.99CA). The only thing I don't like about it is the onboard NIC...I immediately purchased an Intel PRO1000 PT (PCIe X1) Desktop Adapter and disabled the onboard NIC. I know you're looking for Canadian prices, but I found the NIC on TigerDirect for $34.99US...

So basically create a filter with a query something like: root\directory\LDAP; Select * from ads_computer where ADSIPath = "LDAP://CN=servername,OU=Domain Controllers,DC=domainname,DC=local" and apply that WMI Filter to the GPO? I'm not understanding the reason for multiple GPOs though...unless you're talking about one for workstation settings and one for server settings?

So can they logon or not?

I've got a question for some of you who have been doing Group Policies far longer than I have. I know I can't apply a GPO directly to a user/group/computer. It has to be applied to an OU. I was looking at some of the settings though and noticed the Security Filtering options and thought "Ok...this could be cool". I've created a custom Domain Controller Security GPO that has both computer and user settings in it. However, of course, the settings aren't enforced because the users don't exist in the Domain Controllers OU so I have to apply the GPO to the OU containing the admin type accounts (they're in a custom OU). The problem I'm faced with is that some of the users in this OU are workstation admins, but not domain admins. The workstations will have different user policies than the DCs/Servers. Using the Security Filtering options can I specify that the GPO should only be applied to the Domain Controllers group, link it to the customer Administrators OU and expect that the user settings will be applied when the user logs on to a DC, but not be applied when they logon to a workstation? EDIT: Well, I tried it running Group Policy Modeling and pretty much figured out that it won't work that way. But I still want to see if anyone has any suggestions...

This is a pretty good site, too: http://www.htpcnews.com/

I was about to ask that as well. Another thing to check is that you have the 127.0.0.1 (or the server's IP) as the DNS entry in the TCP/IP settings on the server.

Most hardware review sites use a standard set of synthetic application and gaming benchmarks so the results are comparable over a given time frame. You could look at several reviews and compare the numbers from each. For example, an X1650Pro review and a 6600GT review could be compared to each other, even if they aren't directly in their resepective reviews. I've also found that you can sometimes find reviews that compare them directly buy doing a Google search for "Card1 vs Card2". You can try taking a look at this, but the X1650PRO cards he has listed are clocked much higher than that one so it won't be an accurate comparison. http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics.html That's odd that they list it as "CrossFire Support" since it's an AGP card...only one AGP slot on motherboards.

Glad to help...

Since it only has DDR that card is not a particularly good choice either. The memory bandwidth is so crippled that it won't be much better than the 6200 cards in the list with DDR2. As we said, none of them are good choices so no one is willing to tell you "yeah, purchase this one and you'll be ok". Hardware is usually a long term purchase, especially if you're on a limited budget, so you sould save a little more and purchase something you'll be happy with and will last longer...instead of purchasing something you'll be "ok", or possibly disappointed, with.